Obsidian Portal vs RPG Story Toolkit

Obsidian Portal is a web-based campaign management site for tabletop role-playing groups. Its campaign wiki lets players organize game material in a shared campaign website, with a calendar, adventure log and character tracker to support campaign management. The service says it works with any game system and setting. The free Basic plan costs nothing and includes two campaigns, 2 MB per campaign and one map. Ascendant costs $5.99 a month and includes unlimited campaigns, 10 GB per Ascendant GM and 10 maps, as well as custom styling, player secrets, email notifications, selectable JavaScript capabilities, a dice roller and a campaign forum. Ascendant also offers public, friends-only or private campaigns. The service provides an API for developers creating tabletop tools or enhancing gaming experiences. Its privacy policy says member email addresses are not shared with third parties and users can choose public, limited or private access for their information. Support is available through a knowledge base, community forums and email, with a stated aim to follow up within 24 hours.

RPG Story Toolkit is a workspace for writing stories, organizing world data, building timelines and maps, publishing a wiki, and exporting material for games. Its rich-text editor links mentions to database records, and those links update when a record is renamed. Users can define tables and fields for characters, items, locations, calendars, and other records. Timelines can be ordered or shown in a Gantt-style view; maps accept uploads, pins, and drawn regions.

The web app publishes documents and records as a browsable wiki at its own address, republishing project updates. Exports include JSON, CSV, TSV, Markdown, plain text, DOCX, and ZIP. The Mac desktop app stores projects as Markdown, JSON, and asset files and works offline. Automatic desktop-to-web sync requires Pro. Web Free is $0 and includes one project, up to three documents and image uploads, public wiki publishing, and export. Desktop is free; Pro is $5 a month. Browser and Mac desktop versions are available; the Windows desktop app is marked as coming soon. The project links to its code on GitHub and says users can inspect and modify it.